Bunny vs Butterfly - What's the difference?
bunny | butterfly |
A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.
Any small drain or culvert.
A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.
A small pool of water.
A swelling from a blow; a bump.
(mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.
A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
(sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
(South Africa) bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry
* 2008 , Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa (page 258)
(not comparable) In skiing, easy or unchallenging.
A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera , distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
The butterfly stroke.
A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.
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As nouns the difference between bunny and butterfly
is that bunny is a culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches or bunny can be a swelling from a blow; a bump or bunny can be a rabbit, especially a juvenile while butterfly is a flying insect of the order lepidoptera , distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.As an adjective bunny
is (not comparable) in skiing, easy or unchallenging or bunny can be resembling a bun.As a verb butterfly is
to cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.bunny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(bunnies)Etymology 2
From (etyl) bony, .Alternative forms
*Noun
(bunnies)Etymology 3
From .Noun
(bunnies)- Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies . You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.
Derived terms
* angst bunny * badge bunny * bunny girl * bunny rabbit * cuddle bunny * dust bunny * Easter Bunny * gym bunny * snuggle bunny * that's the bunny * bunny wunny * snow bunnyAdjective
(en adjective)- Let’s start on the bunny hill.
Synonyms
* nurseryEtymology 4
From .Synonyms
* (resembling a bun) bunlikebutterfly
English
(Butterfly) (wikipedia butterfly)Noun
(butterflies)- The day came indeed when her breathless auditors learnt from her in bewilderment that what ailed him was that he was, alas, simply not serious. Maisie wept on Mrs. Wix's bosom after hearing that Sir Claude was a butterfly [...].
- butterfly tape
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* butterflies in one's stomach * butterfly ballot * butterfly banners * butterfly bat * butterfly bomb * butterfly bush (see buddleia or buddleja) * butterfly chair * butterfly clam * butterfly collector (see lepidopterist or lepidopterology) * butterfly cod * butterfly crab * butterfly dam * butterfly damper * butterfly effect * butterfly fish * butterfly flower (see schizanthus) * butterfly hinge * butterfly knife * butterfly knot * butterfly lily * butterfly mussel * butterfly net * butterfly nut (wing nut) * butterfly orchid * butterfly pea * butterfly plant * butterfly ray * butterfly shell * butterfly stroke (swimming) * butterfly table * butterfly tulip * butterfly valve * butterfly weed * butterfly window * float like a butterfly * peacock butterfly * social butterflyVerb
(en-verb)- butterflied shrimp
- Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
